Gendering the Knowledge Economy Comparative Perspectives

This edited collection, by an international network of prominent feminist scholars, combines theoretical discussions and original empirical material from the UK, US, Germany and Japan to investigate the future of work.

SYLVIA WALBY is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, UK and UNESCO Chair in Gender Research. She has held Chairs in the Universities of Bristol and Leeds and a Readership at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Recent publications include Gender Transformation, editorship of a special issue of Social Politics on 'Gender Mainstreaming' and Globalization and Inequalities.

HEIDI GOTTFRIED is Professor of Sociology and Director of the MA in Industrial Relations Program at Wayne State University, USA. Her research focuses on employment regulation, and gender and work in comparative perspective. She is co-editor of Equity in the Workplace: Gendering Workplace Policy Analysis.

KARIN GOTTSCHALL is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Social Policy Research, Bremen University, Germany. Her research and advisory work focuses on labour and employment studies, social policy and education. Recent publications include a monograph on the Germany sociological discourse on social inequality and gender, and a co-edition of Beyond Standard Work, Special Issue of Critical Sociology.

MARI OSAWA is Professor of Social Policy at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, Japan and member of the Science Council of Japan. She has been a Marie Jahoda Professor (International Visiting Professorship) at the Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany and a Visiting Professor at the Gender and Development Studies, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.